# Steelman 2025: Mapping the chronology of an ancient cosmovision: 4000 years of continuity in Pecos River style mural painting and symbolism > Karen L. Steelman, Carolyn E. Boyd, J. Phil Dering, 2025. 17 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The chronology of Pecos River style, the paint… Source: https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DCKG27FGC74/mapping-the-chronology-of-an-ancient-cosmovision-4000-years Publisher: Mysteries Department Licence: CC BY 4.0 (credit Mysteries Department and link the page) --- [Sources](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources)[White Shaman Mural](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/white-shaman-mural)Steelman 2025 **0** # Mapping the chronology of an ancient cosmovision: 4000 years of continuity in Pecos River style mural painting and symbolism Karen L. Steelman, Carolyn E. Boyd, J. Phil Dering, 2025. _Science Advances 11(48), eadx7205_. Direct AMS radiocarbon dates on the organic carbon in paint, extracted by plasma oxidation, with oxalate dates above and below the paint as a check, for 12 Pecos River style murals; Bayesian modelling of the style's start and end; microscopy of paint layers at eight murals showing a fixed colour order and single painting events. Does not date the White Shaman mural itself. **White Shaman MuralSecondary source** Articledoi: **[10.1126/sciadv.adx7205](https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adx7205)** Checked against the original0 ## What it's used for here The chronology of Pecos River style, the paint stratigraphy and the pigment summary. ## Cited by on this site 17 records [Dated Pecos River murals elsewhere were each painted in one event](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/white-shaman-mural/evidence/EVD0DCKR6A2QA25/dated-pecos-river-murals-elsewhere-were-each-painted-in-one) Evidence EVD [Detailed correspondences with Aztec and Huichol cosmology](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/white-shaman-mural/evidence/EVD0DCKS213JQNV/detailed-correspondences-with-aztec-and-huichol-cosmology) Evidence EVD [Figures are interwoven, each over and under others, in one colour sequence](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/white-shaman-mural/evidence/EVD0DCKR6R1BD3M/figures-are-interwoven-each-over-and-under-others-in-one) Evidence EVD [Four thousand years of stable rules and motifs in Pecos River painting](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/white-shaman-mural/evidence/EVD0DCKS1JKQQHY/four-thousand-years-of-stable-rules-and-motifs-in-pecos) Evidence EVD [Microscopy shows one colour order across the panel, black first and white last](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/white-shaman-mural/evidence/EVD0DCKR5RNGYY1/microscopy-shows-one-colour-order-across-the-panel-black) Evidence EVD [Pecos River style began 5760 to 5385 cal BP, long before the art it was said to copy](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/white-shaman-mural/evidence/EVD0DCKS3EYP5B4/pecos-river-style-began-5760-to-5385-cal-bp-long-before-the) Evidence EVD [The legacy dates are set aside and the mural has not been re-dated](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/white-shaman-mural/evidence/EVD0DCKRTX4HQDS/the-legacy-dates-are-set-aside-and-the-mural-has-not-been-re) Evidence EVD [The style was still being painted about 2,000 years ago](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/white-shaman-mural/evidence/EVD0DCKRSD34HE7/the-style-was-still-being-painted-about-2-000-years-ago) Evidence EVD [Pecos River style painting begins in the Lower Pecos](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/white-shaman-mural/events/EVT0DCKMV8NAKA1/pecos-river-style-painting-begins-in-the-lower-pecos) EVT [Pecos River style painting probably ends](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/white-shaman-mural/events/EVT0DCKN57TCG8S/pecos-river-style-painting-probably-ends) EVT [Steelman, Boyd and Dering publish the dating of twelve Pecos River style murals](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/white-shaman-mural/events/EVT0DCKNJEQB26G/steelman-boyd-and-dering-publish-the-dating-of-twelve-pecos) EVT [Karen L. Steelman](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/white-shaman-mural/people/FIG0DCKKYHSASGE/karen-l-steelman) FIG [Kim Cox](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/white-shaman-mural/people/FIG0DCKKY4VMCNM/kim-cox) FIG [The White Shaman Mural](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/white-shaman-mural) The mystery article MYS [Lower Pecos Canyonlands, Texas and Coahuila](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/white-shaman-mural/places/PLC0DCKK7AGFHCN/lower-pecos-canyonlands-texas-and-coahuila) PLC [Does the mural express beliefs that later Mesoamerican peoples inherited from the Archaic Lower Pecos?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/white-shaman-mural/questions/QST0DCKPM8HGXYZ/does-the-mural-express-beliefs-that-later-mesoamerican) Question QST [When was the White Shaman mural painted?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/white-shaman-mural/questions/QST0DCKPKVJK0QF/when-was-the-white-shaman-mural-painted) Question QST ## Cite it ``` Steelman, K. L., Boyd, C. E., & Dering, J. P. (2025). Mapping the chronology of an ancient cosmovision: 4000 years of continuity in Pecos River style mural painting and symbolism. Science Advances 11(48), eadx7205. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adx7205 ``` [Read it free at doi.org](https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adx7205) Key **SRC** 0DCKG27FGC74 Kind Journal article Rights CC-BY-NC-4.0 Kept 28 Oct 2026, for editors Checked Against the published article Added by [apollo](https://mysteriesdept.com/u/apollo) The record Bibliographic records are CC0. Take this one as CSL-JSON, BibTeX or RIS. [CSL-JSON](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DCKG27FGC74/mapping-the-chronology-of-an-ancient-cosmovision-4000-years/csl.json)